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Bard College

STRENGTHS:

  • Great hands-on training

LIKED BEST:

  • My friends
Barnard College 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Variety/severity of pathology

LIKED BEST:

  • Class 2014
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands-on experience during clinical rotations
  • Cardiology blocks and Neurology blocks- both were very clinically relevant, well organized and well taught

LIKED BEST:

  • Overcoming the challenges that came my way
  • The students & their altruism
Berkeley College

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical training
  • Amazing colleagues

LIKED BEST:

  • Making life-long friends
Boston College 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great patient population

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great faculty
  • Great resources to learn from

LIKED BEST:

The supportive staff, the activities

Boston University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Down to earth faculty & residents
  • Small group learning

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Good classes
  • Good clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • Time at KCH
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • Audio lectures
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Camaraderie
  • Classmates
  • Underserved population

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical experience 
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates- we have had a fantastic four years together and I have made a lot of close friends
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Underserved care- complicated socioeconomic/social environment; large volume

LIKED BEST:

  • Daniel Hale Williams Society
Brandeis University 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical training
  • Lots of responsibility

LIKED BEST:

  • Great community of awesome people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Variety of patients
  • Dedicated faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • 3rd & 4th year rotations, especially electives in 4th years
Brown University  

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
  • Faculty
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Good

LIKED BEST:

  • School
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Faculty
  • The wonderful people in Academic Development
  • My classmates

LIKED BEST:

  • Medicine rotations
  • Psych rotation
Bucknell University

STRENGTHS:

Hands on clinical training

LIKED BEST:

The people

College of The Holy Cross

STRENGTHS:

  • Good clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • Diversity
Columbia University   

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical education
  • Student body

LIKED BEST:

  • Student body
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • Living in Brooklyn!
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
Cornell University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure
  • Education on the wards
  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical exposure and experience
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Seeing patients early
  • Great clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • Everything
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical experience
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical exposure
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands-on clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The experience
  • The people
CUNY- Brooklyn College

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience
  • Good education
  • Great faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • Good team support
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • Flexibility of faculty-made accommodations
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • Camaraderie w/ students
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Support, community

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Very thorough

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Support, community

LIKED BEST:

  • Faculty
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical years experience
  • CBL & small group sessions
  • Great class & supportive staff

LIKED BEST:

  • My class!
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical med and practicing skills

LIKED BEST:

  • Student Life
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The people, the curricula and most importantly the patients!

LIKED BEST:

  • The support of the faculty
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
CUNY- City College, Sophie Davis

STRENGTHS:

  • Diversity of clinical experience
  • Breadth of pathology

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Downstate provided strong clinical experience in the 3rd & 4th year

 

 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Friendly administration

LIKED BEST:

  • Student Life
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Support staff

LIKED BEST:

  • Staff & faculty
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience- great exposure to pathology & physicians

LIKED BEST:

  • My experience w/ patient interaction on the floor
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

  • Proximity to home, location
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on education
  • Quality of attendings

LIKED BEST:

  • Learning how to manage patients
  • Quality of rotating hospitals
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on during rotations
  • Great mentors

LIKED BEST:

  • 4th year
 

STRENGTHS:

  • I was exposed to a wide variety of cases
  • Lectures and small groups were great
  • I was able to rotate through and experience many hospitals

LIKED BEST:

  • All the amazing and helpful people I've met
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinicals

LIKED BEST:

  • Psych at Nursing Station 52
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The teachers
  • The class
  • The students
 

STRENGTHS:

  • First hand experience
  • Readiness for real world

LIKED BEST:

  • Willingness of faculty to teach
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical clerkship

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical clerkship
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinical years were very good
  • Very well organized

LIKED BEST:

  • The attendings & residents were always willing to teach
 

STRENGTHS:

  • As a 3rd & 4th year medical student, I was able to have hands on experience in the clinical setting. 

LIKED BEST:

  • I liked my clinical experience.  Electives were also great learning experiences
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on experience
  • Variety of cases

LIKED BEST:

  • Patient interactions
  • Lectures
  • Grand Rounds
CUNY- Hunter College

STRENGTHS:

  • Student body
  • The approachable doctors
  • The Patients
  • Location

LIKED BEST:

  • All of the above
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Patient exposure
  • Great, fun, knowledgeable faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • My friends and classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinical training was extensive and prepared me to be a resident

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experiences
  • Teaching

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
  • Rotations
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Experience on the floors, great attendings, wonderful faculty

LIKED BEST:

  • The students and the floor work
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Hands on environment
  • Given a lot of responsibility early on Research

LIKED BEST:

  • Orientation
  • Camaraderie
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great patient experience
  • Very amazing faculty who are dedicated to education
  • Location

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
  • The patients
  • Faculty
Emory University   

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Camaraderie
  • Faculty who like to teach
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure
  • Atmosphere & camaraderie of student body

LIKED BEST:

  • Rotations- Block parties
  • Friends
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Exposure to pathologies
  • Class community

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
  • Brooklyn
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The diversity

LIKED BEST:

  • Carrel B
Florida State University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinical
  • Great people
Georgetown University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • People
  • Diversity
Indiana University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • People
  • Patients & students

LIKED BEST:

  • Student Center
John's Hopkins University   

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical years were the best

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Exceptional clinical education w/ opportunities for meaningful involvement in clinical care.  Unparalleled diversity of both patients and my fellow students.

LIKED BEST:

  • The students and faculty.  I have never worked with such a loving and dynamic group of people.
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinical hands-on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The people I met (students, residents, attendings)
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Learning medicine, meeting new people
Lehigh University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical, hands on training

LIKED BEST:

  • Amazing classmates!
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience
New York University          

STRENGTHS:

  • 3rd & 4th year clinical years at the Downstate and Kings County sites

LIKED BEST:

  • My fellow students
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Independence

LIKED BEST:

  • Fun
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Found great friendships
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Curriculum, Academic Development

LIKED BEST:

  • Campus events
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinicals

LIKED BEST:

  • Clinicals
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My class, professors and attendings
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical exposure
  • Teaching all year round!

LIKED BEST:

  • Working with the people
  • Making friends
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinical experience was unparalleled

LIKED BEST:

  • Getting the necessary clinical skills
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Good clinical experience
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical years

LIKED BEST:

  • People
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical education
  • Engaging faculty
  • Great student class

LIKED BEST:

  • Students
Northeastern University

STRENGTHS:

  • Great teachers
  • Great clinical experience
  • Great student body

LIKED BEST:

  • The people I worked with including students & faculty
  • Being able to work with underserved population
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

  • Good people, fun clinical experiences
Rhode Island College

STRENGTHS:

  • The variety of practice settings within urban communities.
  • Contact with those for which medical care access is a continued issue.
  • Variety of faculty and professional role model, a vast majority of which showed compassion for patients and students.
  • Heterogeneity of the student body and community groups.

LIKED BEST:

  • People, people, people. Always people.
 Rutgers University

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience is unmatched

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
St. John's University

STRENGTHS:

  • People

LIKED BEST:

  • People
Stanford University

STRENGTHS:

  • Excellent clinical and hands on training
  • A wonderful and rewarding patient population to work with

LIKED BEST:

  • Meeting all my classmates and making life long friends
SUNY Binghamton University     

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • Tutoring
  • Block parties
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Responsive faculty
  • Technology in education

LIKED BEST:

  • Activities at student center
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure
  • Advanced pathology
  • Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My fellow classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience
  • Significant name in "street cred"

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates & Green Deli guys
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Diversity of pathology seen on the wards
SUNY Buffalo University 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training
  • Hands on

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

  • The people & atmosphere
SUNY Geneseo

STRENGTHS:

  • Excellent support from staff and faculty to develop individual learning
  • habits and clinical skills
  • Patients are incredible in this community.

LIKED BEST:

  • Awesome student body
SUNY Stony Brook University

STRENGTHS:

  • Awesome teachers
  • Great student diversity
  • Brooklyn

LIKED BEST:

  • Meeting awesome people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure and strong academic support

LIKED BEST:

  • The friends I made
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Good teachers

LIKED BEST:

  • 4th year
  • People are relaxed
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great teaching
  • Great staff
  • Lots of hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • People, patient population, clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • The clinical experience
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Camaraderie among students

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Great faculty and student body
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Excellent teaching

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Fantastic clinical education.  I feel prepared for everything.
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • People
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Lots of clinical exposure
  • Prepared me for residency
  • Good patient exposure

LIKED BEST:

  • The camaraderie of the class
Tufts University

STRENGTHS:

  • The diversity of the patient population

LIKED BEST:

  • My friendships
Tulane University

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
University of California, Berkeley    

STRENGTHS:

  • The hands on clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • All the great people I have had the privilege of being friends and working with them
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical

LIKED BEST:

  • Flexible
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical years
  • Opportunities for hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Literally everything
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great exposure to diverse populations
  • Friendly co-students
  • Enthusiastic staff & attendings
  • Virtually every hour relevant to teaching

LIKED BEST:

  • I matured a lot in the last 4 years have both personally & in terms of my educational goals.
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical training
  • Amazing colleagues

LIKED BEST:

  • Making lifelong friends
University of California, Davis

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • The people I met
University of California, Los Angeles      

STRENGTHS:

  • diversity

LIKED BEST:

  • Sense of community
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinicals

LIKED BEST:

  • The student body
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience.  Strong tie to community experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Rotations and KCHC
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The clinical experience
  • Mentorship and teaching by residents

LIKED BEST:

  • The environment, students and faculty were a pleasure to work with
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great teaching, great hospitals

LIKED BEST:

  • Camaraderie 
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Amazing clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Clerkships and amazing classmates
University of California, Irvine

STRENGTHS:

  • The people

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
University of California, San Diego

STRENGTHS:

  • Unique clinical experience with many opportunities to learn hands on
  • Wonderful patient population with unique, complicated problems
  • Character building challenges in every rotation
  • Diverse class of students

LIKED BEST:

  • The classmates and life long friends I made
  • The chance to live in NY
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Hands on training

LIKED BEST:

  • Great clinical training
University of Maryland

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical challenges

LIKED BEST:

  • My classmates
University of Miami

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical education

LIKED BEST:

  • Students and faculty
University of Pennsylvania

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical training was amazing.
  • Students were amazing.

LIKED BEST:

  • I made friends for a lifetime.
University of Pittsburgh

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure with a diverse patient population
  • Great faculty that really cared for students education

LIKED BEST:

  • Fellow students
  • Faculty
University of Rochester

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical education- great education
  • The faculty really supports the students

LIKED BEST:

  • The people, classmates, faculty, etc
University of Southern California

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Diversity of pathology

LIKED BEST:

  • Classmates
  • Gym
University of Virginia

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical exposure, faculty, and students!!!

LIKED BEST:

  • Residential Life & Student Center
Wellesley College

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical rotations/experience
  • Patient population

LIKED BEST:

  • Diverse student populations
Wesleyan University

STRENGTHS:

  • It gives me an MD

LIKED BEST:

  • Parties, of course
Wheaton College

STRENGTHS:

  • Diversity among students & patients

LIKED BEST:

  • Students are amazing
Yeshiva University  

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Podcasting of lectures and posting of slides

LIKED BEST:

  • Great stories of interesting patients
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Awesome class

LIKED BEST:

  • The people
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Complete, varied, good knowledgeable teachers and intro to real life scut work

LIKED BEST:

  • Primary care
Other Comments             

STRENGTHS:

  • Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Great friendships
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Great school

LIKED BEST:

  • People
 

STRENGTHS:

  • The strengths are good clinical clerkships with diverse patient population.

LIKED BEST:

  • Studying in a place where diversity is celebrated and being involved in club activities.
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • Class camaraderie
  • Mentorship

LIKED BEST:

  • My class
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience
  • People

LIKED BEST:

  • 3rd year
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Good clinical experience, very hands on very early on

LIKED BEST:

  • 3rd year.
  • Fellow classmates
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Classmates & faculty, clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

  • Same as above
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Interaction with patients and faculty support
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Some excellent faculty clinicians who lead by example

LIKED BEST:

  • Brooklyn
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Academic advising was the best department for students at Downstate

LIKED BEST:

  • It's finally over
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical rotations
  • Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

  • Experience
  • Relationships w/ classmates & professors
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Diversity, lots of experience

LIKED BEST:

  • My peers
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

  • Diversity
 

STRENGTHS:

  • Patient population-wide exposure to medicine

LIKED BEST:

  • Different clerkships